Chords for Brian Wilson: In Conversation | Fender Presents | Fender
Tempo:
115.75 bpm
Chords used:
B
E
D
Am
A
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
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[B] [E] [B] [Em] [B] [F#m]
[B] [E] [B] [E] [B]
[C#] [E] [D#] [E] [B]
[C#m] [E]
[A] [D] [A]
[D] [A] [B]
On East Coast girls are hip, I really [F#m] dig those styles they wear.
[E] And the Southern girls, the way they talk, [F#] walk me out when I'm down there.
[B] The Midwest, from the garden, really [F#m] makes me feel alright.
[E] And the Northern girls, the way they talk, [F#] knock my bed before my head knocks.
[B] I wish they all [A] could be [C#m] Californian, [A] I wish they all [Bm] could be Californian,
[G] I wish they all [Am] could be Californian [B] girls.
[C#m] [E] [B] The Beach Boys, the Beach Boys inspire me.
The sound of the Fender [C#m] guitar inspires like rock and roll melodies.
Inspiration [B] comes from my love for music.
And my piano.
I [C#m] dig the girls, girls, girls, yeah I [B] dig the girls.
[N] Alright.
We're cool, thank you.
While Chuck Berry influenced me to write rock and roll melodies,
Phil Spector taught me how to produce pianos and guitars and keyboards and bass and drums.
He taught me how to combine all those together.
Just the, you know, [E] the track of that rock and roll music, just his melodies were so great.
My father bought us the amps and the guitars, the Fender bass and guitars,
and we loved the Fender bass.
Fender bass was like a great bass, you know.
I think it was a Precision.
Yeah, that's what he was playing.
Fender because we were told that Fender was the best.
Best, you know, the best.
My advice is for a songwriter to try not to write too hard, try not to write too hard,
but follow through and write the whole song.
A song starts with a chord, with music, and then the melody comes and then the lyrics.
So it goes chords, melody, lyrics.
It's always the same.
Music is love for me.
Music is like feeling love and happiness and joy.
I'll start this way.
It's just when I was a kid, hearing the opening chords of California Girls to me was like an epiphany.
I didn't know what music was or what chords were or anything like that,
but hearing that on the little radio driving, actually by the beach coincidentally,
and then meeting the guy and having to have him show us the right way to play it and all that,
that's a memory.
Our initial meeting, it was just like, wow, man, I'm here.
I never thought I would be.
California Girls, that's my favorite because of Mike's singing.
My biggest memories are working with the voices, giving the guys chords to sing and parts to sing.
That's my favorite.
He's so quick.
When he's designating voices to everybody, it's just like he's on fire.
It's like, you do this, you do this, and you can't figure out what's going on,
but you just do your thing and it comes together like this.
Pet Sounds, I just remember working with the musicians and the recceing crew,
and I remember giving them chord sheets to play.
I wrote out the notes for them to play.
I loved the way they played their parts, you know, the saxophones, the drum, percussion, bass, pianos, guitars.
I loved the way they all played together, you know.
The process took about three hours for us to get it right.
We wanted to get a harmonic, spiritual sound, mostly harmonies, tight harmonies, and blissful harmonies.
In my room?
Oh, I love the
[B] Do [G#m] [C#m]
[F#] [G#m]
my dreaming, [F#] am I scheming?
[E] Lie [C#] awake
I can't part the bridge.
We wanted to get the sound of heaven, like a heavenly, blissful sound.
I Get Around, my brother Carl suggested that we use two guitars.
I said, sure, fine, so we did it.
We used two guitars.
We wanted to achieve a very commercial guitar sound and a commercial melody for Mike Love to sing.
It was like a complete event, it was a whole event to hear it over the speakers.
It really was.
My favorite [G] memory was when Mike sang,
I get [Am] around.
And what I'm gonna [D] do.
Yeah, the bad guys know us and they leave us alone.
I [G] get around.
That was my favorite part.
There wasn't a process actually.
There was just a recording studio and the Beach Boys.
The hardest part was when we dubbed it down.
We mixed the guitars and pianos with the voices all together.
That was the hardest part.
Doing the dub down.
One, two, three, four.
Round round, [E] get around round, I get around
[A] Yeah, get around round, round, [F] round
I [D] get around
[G] Round round I get around
[E]
Around round I get around
[Am] Around round I get around
[F] Pass
[D] [Am] [D] down [Am] that same [D] old trip
Gotta find a new place where [Am] the kids [D] will hide
eh [G] eh ded ded ded yeah [Am]
my buddys [D] and me we're [Am] getting real [D] well'nuh
[Am] all the bad [D] guys know us and [Am] they leave [D] us alone
I [G] get around, around, around, I get around I [E] get it around, round, round I getta ruhehh
[A] I get around, [Am] round, round I get around
[F] [D]
[B] [E] [B] [E] [B]
[C#] [E] [D#] [E] [B]
[C#m] [E]
[A] [D] [A]
[D] [A] [B]
On East Coast girls are hip, I really [F#m] dig those styles they wear.
[E] And the Southern girls, the way they talk, [F#] walk me out when I'm down there.
[B] The Midwest, from the garden, really [F#m] makes me feel alright.
[E] And the Northern girls, the way they talk, [F#] knock my bed before my head knocks.
[B] I wish they all [A] could be [C#m] Californian, [A] I wish they all [Bm] could be Californian,
[G] I wish they all [Am] could be Californian [B] girls.
[C#m] [E] [B] The Beach Boys, the Beach Boys inspire me.
The sound of the Fender [C#m] guitar inspires like rock and roll melodies.
Inspiration [B] comes from my love for music.
And my piano.
I [C#m] dig the girls, girls, girls, yeah I [B] dig the girls.
[N] Alright.
We're cool, thank you.
While Chuck Berry influenced me to write rock and roll melodies,
Phil Spector taught me how to produce pianos and guitars and keyboards and bass and drums.
He taught me how to combine all those together.
Just the, you know, [E] the track of that rock and roll music, just his melodies were so great.
My father bought us the amps and the guitars, the Fender bass and guitars,
and we loved the Fender bass.
Fender bass was like a great bass, you know.
I think it was a Precision.
Yeah, that's what he was playing.
Fender because we were told that Fender was the best.
Best, you know, the best.
My advice is for a songwriter to try not to write too hard, try not to write too hard,
but follow through and write the whole song.
A song starts with a chord, with music, and then the melody comes and then the lyrics.
So it goes chords, melody, lyrics.
It's always the same.
Music is love for me.
Music is like feeling love and happiness and joy.
I'll start this way.
It's just when I was a kid, hearing the opening chords of California Girls to me was like an epiphany.
I didn't know what music was or what chords were or anything like that,
but hearing that on the little radio driving, actually by the beach coincidentally,
and then meeting the guy and having to have him show us the right way to play it and all that,
that's a memory.
Our initial meeting, it was just like, wow, man, I'm here.
I never thought I would be.
California Girls, that's my favorite because of Mike's singing.
My biggest memories are working with the voices, giving the guys chords to sing and parts to sing.
That's my favorite.
He's so quick.
When he's designating voices to everybody, it's just like he's on fire.
It's like, you do this, you do this, and you can't figure out what's going on,
but you just do your thing and it comes together like this.
Pet Sounds, I just remember working with the musicians and the recceing crew,
and I remember giving them chord sheets to play.
I wrote out the notes for them to play.
I loved the way they played their parts, you know, the saxophones, the drum, percussion, bass, pianos, guitars.
I loved the way they all played together, you know.
The process took about three hours for us to get it right.
We wanted to get a harmonic, spiritual sound, mostly harmonies, tight harmonies, and blissful harmonies.
In my room?
Oh, I love the
[B] Do [G#m] [C#m]
[F#] [G#m]
my dreaming, [F#] am I scheming?
[E] Lie [C#] awake
I can't part the bridge.
We wanted to get the sound of heaven, like a heavenly, blissful sound.
I Get Around, my brother Carl suggested that we use two guitars.
I said, sure, fine, so we did it.
We used two guitars.
We wanted to achieve a very commercial guitar sound and a commercial melody for Mike Love to sing.
It was like a complete event, it was a whole event to hear it over the speakers.
It really was.
My favorite [G] memory was when Mike sang,
I get [Am] around.
And what I'm gonna [D] do.
Yeah, the bad guys know us and they leave us alone.
I [G] get around.
That was my favorite part.
There wasn't a process actually.
There was just a recording studio and the Beach Boys.
The hardest part was when we dubbed it down.
We mixed the guitars and pianos with the voices all together.
That was the hardest part.
Doing the dub down.
One, two, three, four.
Round round, [E] get around round, I get around
[A] Yeah, get around round, round, [F] round
I [D] get around
[G] Round round I get around
[E]
Around round I get around
[Am] Around round I get around
[F] Pass
[D] [Am] [D] down [Am] that same [D] old trip
Gotta find a new place where [Am] the kids [D] will hide
eh [G] eh ded ded ded yeah [Am]
my buddys [D] and me we're [Am] getting real [D] well'nuh
[Am] all the bad [D] guys know us and [Am] they leave [D] us alone
I [G] get around, around, around, I get around I [E] get it around, round, round I getta ruhehh
[A] I get around, [Am] round, round I get around
[F] [D]
Key:
B
E
D
Am
A
B
E
D
[B] _ [E] _ _ [B] _ _ [Em] _ [B] _ [F#m] _
[B] _ _ [E] _ _ [B] _ [E] _ [B] _ _
[C#] _ [E] _ _ _ [D#] _ _ [E] _ [B] _
_ [C#m] _ [E] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [A] _ _ [D] _ _ [A] _ _
[D] _ [A] _ _ _ _ [B] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ On East Coast girls are hip, I really [F#m] dig those styles they wear.
_ [E] And the Southern girls, the way they talk, [F#] walk me out when I'm down there.
_ [B] The Midwest, from the garden, really [F#m] makes me feel alright.
_ _ [E] And the Northern girls, the way they talk, [F#] knock my bed before my head knocks.
_ _ [B] I wish they all [A] could be _ [C#m] Californian, [A] I wish they all [Bm] could be _ Californian,
[G] I wish they all [Am] could be Californian [B] girls. _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[C#m] _ _ _ [E] _ [B] The Beach Boys, the Beach Boys inspire me.
The sound of the Fender [C#m] guitar inspires like rock and roll melodies.
_ Inspiration [B] comes from my love for music.
And my piano.
I [C#m] dig the girls, girls, girls, yeah I [B] dig the girls. _
_ [N] Alright.
_ We're cool, thank you.
While Chuck Berry influenced me to write rock and roll melodies,
Phil Spector taught me how to produce pianos and guitars and keyboards and bass and drums.
He taught me how to combine all those together.
Just the, you know, [E] the track of that rock and roll music, just his melodies were so great.
My father bought us the amps and the guitars, the Fender bass and guitars,
and we loved the Fender bass.
Fender bass was like a great bass, you know.
I think it was a Precision.
Yeah, that's what he was playing.
Fender because we were told that Fender was the best.
Best, you know, the best. _ _
My advice is for a songwriter to try not to write too hard, try not to write too hard,
but follow through and write the whole song.
A song starts with a chord, with music, and then the melody comes and then the lyrics.
So it goes chords, melody, lyrics.
It's always the same.
Music is love for me.
Music is like feeling love and happiness and joy.
_ I'll start this way.
It's just when I was a kid, hearing the opening chords of California Girls to me was like an epiphany.
I didn't know what music was or what chords were or anything like that,
but hearing that on the little radio driving, actually by the beach coincidentally,
and then meeting the guy and having to have him show us the right way to play it and all that,
that's a memory.
Our initial meeting, it was just like, wow, man, I'm here.
I never thought I would be.
California Girls, that's my favorite because of Mike's singing.
My biggest memories are working with the voices, giving the guys chords to sing and parts to sing.
That's my favorite.
He's so quick.
_ When he's designating voices to everybody, it's just like he's on fire.
It's like, you do this, you do this, and you can't figure out what's going on,
but you just do your thing and it comes together like this.
_ Pet Sounds, I just remember working with the musicians and the recceing crew,
and I remember _ giving them chord sheets to play.
I wrote out the notes for them to play.
I loved the way they played their parts, you know, the saxophones, the drum, percussion, bass, _ pianos, guitars.
I loved the way they all played together, you know.
The process took about three hours for us to get it right.
We wanted to get a harmonic, spiritual sound, mostly harmonies, tight harmonies, and blissful harmonies.
In my room?
Oh, I love _ the_ _
[B] _ Do _ [G#m] _ _ _ [C#m] _
_ [F#] _ _ _ _ [G#m] _ _ _
_ my dreaming, [F#] _ am I scheming?
[E] Lie _ [C#] awake_
I can't part the bridge.
We wanted to get the sound of heaven, like a heavenly, blissful sound.
_ I Get Around, my brother Carl suggested that we use two guitars.
I said, sure, fine, so we did it.
We used two guitars.
We wanted to achieve a very commercial guitar sound and a commercial melody for Mike Love to sing.
It was like a complete event, it was a whole event to hear it over the speakers.
It really was.
My favorite [G] memory was when Mike sang,
_ _ I get [Am] around.
And what I'm gonna [D] do.
_ _ Yeah, the bad guys know us and they leave us alone.
I [G] get around.
That was my favorite part.
There wasn't a process actually.
There was just a recording studio and the Beach Boys.
The hardest part was when we dubbed it down.
We mixed the guitars and pianos with the voices all together.
That was the hardest part.
Doing the dub down.
One, two, three, four.
Round round, [E] get around round, I get around
[A] Yeah, get around round, round, [F] round
I [D] get around
[G] Round round I get around
_ [E]
Around round I get around
[Am] _ Around round I get around
[F] _ Pass _
[D] _ _ _ [Am] _ _ [D] down [Am] that same [D] old trip
Gotta find a new place where [Am] the kids [D] will hide
eh [G] eh ded ded ded _ yeah [Am]
my buddys [D] and me we're [Am] getting real [D] well'nuh
[Am] all the bad [D] guys know us and [Am] they leave [D] us alone
I [G] get around, around, around, I get around I [E] get it around, round, round I getta ruhehh
[A] I get around, [Am] round, round I get around
[F] _ _ _ _ [D] _ _ _
[B] _ _ [E] _ _ [B] _ [E] _ [B] _ _
[C#] _ [E] _ _ _ [D#] _ _ [E] _ [B] _
_ [C#m] _ [E] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [A] _ _ [D] _ _ [A] _ _
[D] _ [A] _ _ _ _ [B] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ On East Coast girls are hip, I really [F#m] dig those styles they wear.
_ [E] And the Southern girls, the way they talk, [F#] walk me out when I'm down there.
_ [B] The Midwest, from the garden, really [F#m] makes me feel alright.
_ _ [E] And the Northern girls, the way they talk, [F#] knock my bed before my head knocks.
_ _ [B] I wish they all [A] could be _ [C#m] Californian, [A] I wish they all [Bm] could be _ Californian,
[G] I wish they all [Am] could be Californian [B] girls. _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[C#m] _ _ _ [E] _ [B] The Beach Boys, the Beach Boys inspire me.
The sound of the Fender [C#m] guitar inspires like rock and roll melodies.
_ Inspiration [B] comes from my love for music.
And my piano.
I [C#m] dig the girls, girls, girls, yeah I [B] dig the girls. _
_ [N] Alright.
_ We're cool, thank you.
While Chuck Berry influenced me to write rock and roll melodies,
Phil Spector taught me how to produce pianos and guitars and keyboards and bass and drums.
He taught me how to combine all those together.
Just the, you know, [E] the track of that rock and roll music, just his melodies were so great.
My father bought us the amps and the guitars, the Fender bass and guitars,
and we loved the Fender bass.
Fender bass was like a great bass, you know.
I think it was a Precision.
Yeah, that's what he was playing.
Fender because we were told that Fender was the best.
Best, you know, the best. _ _
My advice is for a songwriter to try not to write too hard, try not to write too hard,
but follow through and write the whole song.
A song starts with a chord, with music, and then the melody comes and then the lyrics.
So it goes chords, melody, lyrics.
It's always the same.
Music is love for me.
Music is like feeling love and happiness and joy.
_ I'll start this way.
It's just when I was a kid, hearing the opening chords of California Girls to me was like an epiphany.
I didn't know what music was or what chords were or anything like that,
but hearing that on the little radio driving, actually by the beach coincidentally,
and then meeting the guy and having to have him show us the right way to play it and all that,
that's a memory.
Our initial meeting, it was just like, wow, man, I'm here.
I never thought I would be.
California Girls, that's my favorite because of Mike's singing.
My biggest memories are working with the voices, giving the guys chords to sing and parts to sing.
That's my favorite.
He's so quick.
_ When he's designating voices to everybody, it's just like he's on fire.
It's like, you do this, you do this, and you can't figure out what's going on,
but you just do your thing and it comes together like this.
_ Pet Sounds, I just remember working with the musicians and the recceing crew,
and I remember _ giving them chord sheets to play.
I wrote out the notes for them to play.
I loved the way they played their parts, you know, the saxophones, the drum, percussion, bass, _ pianos, guitars.
I loved the way they all played together, you know.
The process took about three hours for us to get it right.
We wanted to get a harmonic, spiritual sound, mostly harmonies, tight harmonies, and blissful harmonies.
In my room?
Oh, I love _ the_ _
[B] _ Do _ [G#m] _ _ _ [C#m] _
_ [F#] _ _ _ _ [G#m] _ _ _
_ my dreaming, [F#] _ am I scheming?
[E] Lie _ [C#] awake_
I can't part the bridge.
We wanted to get the sound of heaven, like a heavenly, blissful sound.
_ I Get Around, my brother Carl suggested that we use two guitars.
I said, sure, fine, so we did it.
We used two guitars.
We wanted to achieve a very commercial guitar sound and a commercial melody for Mike Love to sing.
It was like a complete event, it was a whole event to hear it over the speakers.
It really was.
My favorite [G] memory was when Mike sang,
_ _ I get [Am] around.
And what I'm gonna [D] do.
_ _ Yeah, the bad guys know us and they leave us alone.
I [G] get around.
That was my favorite part.
There wasn't a process actually.
There was just a recording studio and the Beach Boys.
The hardest part was when we dubbed it down.
We mixed the guitars and pianos with the voices all together.
That was the hardest part.
Doing the dub down.
One, two, three, four.
Round round, [E] get around round, I get around
[A] Yeah, get around round, round, [F] round
I [D] get around
[G] Round round I get around
_ [E]
Around round I get around
[Am] _ Around round I get around
[F] _ Pass _
[D] _ _ _ [Am] _ _ [D] down [Am] that same [D] old trip
Gotta find a new place where [Am] the kids [D] will hide
eh [G] eh ded ded ded _ yeah [Am]
my buddys [D] and me we're [Am] getting real [D] well'nuh
[Am] all the bad [D] guys know us and [Am] they leave [D] us alone
I [G] get around, around, around, I get around I [E] get it around, round, round I getta ruhehh
[A] I get around, [Am] round, round I get around
[F] _ _ _ _ [D] _ _ _